Milestones (Amy's diary)

Thanks for the report, what kind of pelicans do you have? In the US we have a brown one and a white one. In my experience you only see the brown ones near the coast, but white pelicans are found almost anywhere. We have a lot of the white ones in Utah, hundreds of miles from the ocean.

Never seen a wild kangaroo, hope one day to get to Australia so I can.
 
I was so happy yesterday to see all the birds again. Never seen a pelican in the wild though! Only in the zoo, where they´re loud, smelly, and possibly bored to tears (or possibly happy they don´t have to work for their food or worry about eagles stealing it, and have all their friends nearby).
 
All that wildlife sounds so lovely Amy. So nice to have such beauty in your surroundings to take in. I wonder where that pelican was heading all on its own.
 
I have only seen pelicans "in the wild" on the east coast of Tassie. That sounds like a great walk, Amy. so far today I have resisted those delicious biscuits. I would post them in the forum but they really aren't diet food as such, but healthy & definitely very yummy.
 
Thank you all for your lovely response to the wildlife seen on my morning walks - it's such gorgeous weather right now, too. :) Our pelicans - the only kind I've ever seen, that is - are white, Rob, but with dark ends to their wings.
I'm glad about the biscuits, Cate - I agree about them not being diety, though.

As for wildlife - do mushrooms count? I foraged some the other morning - checking carefully that they weren't poisonous yellow stainers - and then cooked them up for breakfast - yum! It’s been a busy neighbor-filled few days, with dog-walking as usual and an afternoon tea to which I cunningly took sausage rolls as before – ie something I wouldn’t eat – as well as a couple of different kinds of biscuit (yes, I agree, not diety, Cate - but the neighbours grow chickpeas, so chickpea flour could count as a delicate compliment to them :D ). Unfortunately, my neighbour supplied cheese and crackers which I did eat some of, a bit. But even so, all was well, and I'm back swinging on the door to the 160s Club - ie under 170, but at 77 kg, only by a whisker.

On the funny side of returning to a home after quite some time away…
I was in the pantry, looking up at a set of vintage cake-tins/biscuit tins, and thinking “those are really surplus to requirements – maybe Niece would like them”, and started to get them down from the high shelf, and oh – that’s strange, it feels as if there’s something in this one…
And so there was! Half a 500-gram packet of Christmas Mixture (which is to say mixed toffees, jelly lollies etc, some in Christmassy shapes) expiry date May 2017.

You’ll all be pleased to know I didn’t have any trouble at all resisting them! ;)
 
G & I are going to go through all of our cupboards & pick out things that K9 might be interested in. I don't think I have any hidden goodies! Toffies would last forever as they have so much sugar, but you don't need to hear that & probably know that already.
Look at you checking out the 160's club ;)
 
aiminglow said:
As for wildlife - do mushrooms count? I foraged some the other morning - checking carefully that they weren't poisonous yellow stainers - and then cooked them up for breakfast - yum!
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Sure, and that sounds good. I really like mushrooms.
aiminglow said:
You’ll all be pleased to know I didn’t have any trouble at all resisting them!
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Good for you!!

I also saw you looking into the 160s club, you need to move on, with luck I may be in the 170s soon, and there ain't room for the both of us there lady!
 
Oh wow foraged mushrooms for breakfast--lovely!
Lovely about the 160`s club too :) Way to go!! Always nice to enter the next club down!
 
Congrats on getting to the 160s Amy , you are truly inspiring to keep sticking at it.
Amazing the stuff we can find in our cupboards.
Fresh mushrooms are lovely
 
Thanks, all, about the 160s Club! I'm not going to call myself a member there till I've been securely settled for a week, but it's cheering to be that side of the doorway!

I'm here tonight really quickly to say that tonight on the news was news of a pelican - a lone pelican! - arriving way inland at Santa Teresa. (About Santa Teresa | Where is Santa Teresa - Santa Teresa located 85km from Alice Springs) I couldn't help wondering if it was that same lone pelican I saw beating its way inland a few days back - or if there's something going on that the pelicans know about? Maybe a flood coming to make lakes across the inland, which happens from time to time - and there's been water enough for the Darling River to join the Murray so... who knows? (The pelican knows, that's who!)
 
Yes, I am! Partly because I'm excited by the amazing thought of that pelican beating his way north and north, and that I might have actually seen it setting out on the long flight, partly because the Arrente community at Santa Teresa were seeing it as a good thing and I'm glad about that, partly because when the inland lakes are filled (this is desert country, right in the middle of Australia - here's an aerial view round there: Santa Teresa, Australia – Earth View from Google ) it always feels like a time of wonders... but at the same time maybe it's a sign of climate change (as someone seemed to be saying in the news report) and that might be not so good for lots of this country as for many other places.

I should have attached the news story! Here it is:
Pelican visits NT desert community, as lockdown restrictions set to ease
 
Ha, that interview kind of reminds me of the TV show After Life and the interviews Ricky Gervais’s character does for the local paper.

I feel like if the lakes are filling up, that seems like a good thing? How would that be as a result of climate change?
 
I say wait and see. But it's a wonderful thought that you msy have seen that very pelican!
 
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